Remember Desert Trip? In the fall of 2016, Coachella promoter Goldenvoice brought six giants of classic rock to Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, the same site where Coachella and the country festival Stagecoach are held every spring. It ran for two weekends, and then it was done. Now Goldenvoice is bringing back the concept, […]
Drain Announce Insane Summer Tour With Drug Church, Magnitude, MSPAINT, Gel, More
Santa Cruz hardcore bashers Drain have an absolutely notorious live show — the kind of spectacle that sometimes involves boogie boards and innertubes. That show is already the stuff of legend. Last year, Drain, along with their Bay Area friends Gulch, headlined LA’s Sound And Fury festival, the largest North American hardcore festival in history. […]
Carb On Carb – “Grounded”
In the summer of 2021, the New Zealand emo duo Carb On Carb gave us two standalone singles, “Here Comes The Best Bit” and “Be My Mirror.” They’ve given us another new track today, but this one is the beginning of an album rollout. “Grounded” is as sweetly melodious and melancholic as you could want […]
Watch Tomberlin’s Acoustic Cover Of Guided By Voices’ “Game Of Pricks”
“Game Of Pricks” is arguably the best song on arguably the best Guided By Voices album, Alien Lanes. Inarguably, it has become a standard of sorts in recent years, one of the most common GBV songs to cover. (And a scan through our archives will show you indie artists cover GBV a lot.) Touché Amoré […]
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy Explains His “100% Celebrity Discount” Chipotle Card
It’s been almost a year since Wilco released their double album Cruel Country, and the band aren’t really doing the whole promo-cycle thing anymore. Instead, Wilco are messing around with other things. Jeff Tweedy produced a Rodney Crowell album. The band has another one of their Sky Blue Sky festivals coming up in Mexico. The […]
’90s Shoegaze Greats Catherine Wheel Are Teasing Something
Shoegaze greats Catherine Wheel have been on a hiatus since 2000 (the same year as the release of their fifth album Wishville). Since then, the band rereleased their 1992 debut Ferment in 2010 and the individual members have gone on to work on various projects (bassist Brian Ellis has played in Serafin and with Iggy […]
Succession‘s Brian Cox Reveals He’s A “Closet Spice Girls Fan” In Carpool Karaoke Segment
The HBO drama and dark satire Succession is back for its fourth and final season, as you’re surely aware if you consume any pop culture media whatsoever. One revelation from this promo cycle has been veteran actor Brian Cox’s taste for pop music at its most playful and sparkly. Though Cox plays the gruff asshole […]
King Krule – “it’s all soup now” & “Flimsier”
Archy Marshall is back out there doing King Krule shows this year, and he’s selling new music at the gigs. Tour-only flexi discs featuring new King Krule tracks “it’s all soup now” and “Flimsier” are making their way into the world, which inevitably means they’ve ended up online. The former song could almost pass for […]
Scowl – “Psychic Dance Routine”
Right now, there is a whole lot of excitement around the Santa Cruz hardcore band Scowl, and Scowl fully justify all of them excitement. Scowl are the best. Next month, they’ll follow their tremendous 2021 full-length How Flowers Grow with the new EP Psychic Dance Routine. We’ve already posted the early singles “Opening Night” and […]
NOIA – “reveal yourself”
At the end of the week, Gisela Fulla-Silvestre is releasing her debut full-length as NOIA, gisela. We’ve heard a handful of tracks from it already — “eclipse de amor,” “didn’t know,” and “verano adentro” — and today she’s sharing one more before the album is out in full, the glossy and pulsating “reveal yourself.” “‘reveal […]